Professor Henry Overman, the new Director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, explains more about the Centre and the aims of the Centre for the next three years.  Last month saw the...

Journalism is changing, and so is the role of women in the workplace. But the two are not always evolving in harmony. Women substantially outnumber men in journalism training and enter the profession in (slightly) greater...

  In this guest blog by Sheila Duffy, Chief Executive of ASH Scotland, she examines the arguments and evidence presented in 2006 for and against the smoke-free legislation introduced in Scotland and what we can learn...

When the movement to promote evidence-based healthcare began in the late 1980s, it started in the field of child birth. So it might be expected that by now, nearly a quarter of a century later, there...

  There is no consistency in what data different charitable and government funders working in the criminal justice field ask for. This wastes the time and precious resources of small independent organisations according to Mat Ilic,...

According to Peter Suber open access is academic literature which is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions”. Open access delivered by journals is called “gold” open access and open...

  Ray Lock examines the need to move beyond emotive rhetoric and sound bytes with armed forces charities and focus on rigorous evaluations and evidence-based organisations to prove help is going where it’s needed.  Most of...

Creating a common set of standards for all evidence may be impossible but according to Sir Iain Chalmers, one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, there are some basic principles of good evidence that apply...

In this guest blog, Stephen Bediako, Founder and Managing Director of The Social Innovation Partnership, attempts to make sense of the sudden splurge of evidence initiatives in the UK.  It’s an evidence fest. A sudden splurge...